Fast Food worker served during the holidays

Jasmine is a hard-working employee of a local fast food restaurant, but her hours were cut.

With a smaller paycheck, Jasmine couldn’t cover her power bill.

The Athens Banner-Herald Empty Stocking Fund gave $153 to help Jasmine pay for electricity.

The purpose of the fund is to assist local people who cannot be reached by other charities or need more aid than those charities can provide. All recipients have been referred to the Empty Stocking Fund by area agencies.

Donors last year gave a record $60,943.88 to the Athens Banner-Herald Empty Stocking Fund and have donated $48,329.60 to date this season.

A list of donors appears on page B1 in today’s Banner-Herald.

The Empty Stocking fundraising campaign is held during the holidays, but the money collected is not used for toys or gifts, and readers may donate throughout the year.

Credit card donations may be made by logging on to the Athens Banner-Herald website — www.onlineathens.com — and following a link to the “Empty Stocking” donations page, or by calling the Banner-Herald at (706) 549-0123 and asking for the Empty Stocking Fund.

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